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...faced 25-year-old producer, and Dan Colla, a burly, affable childhood friend who is a dead ringer for the male model Fabio. After a sympathetic caller declares that the governor's staunchest political foes - including Illinois house speaker Mike Madigan, Governor Pat Quinn and state senate president John Cullerton - deserve to be pelted with rotten fruit, Blagojevich urges would-be assailants to aim for the head. Within a few mind-bending minutes, he slams Quinn's tax policies, speculates about the percentage of politicians who cheat on their wives and admonishes listeners to brush their teeth and to avoid...
...course, grudges could come into play, and this is still a political, not a criminal, trial. But senate president John Cullerton was equally blunt, saying that playing politics with the trial could come back to bite the same senators sitting in Blagojevich's judgment...
...take it seriously, and the rules we have adopted are fair," said Cullerton on Sunday night, adding that the proceedings were most closely matched to the Clinton impeachment hearings, with the exception that there will be a prosecutor instead of house managers. "I don't talk about the case or the outcome, just the rules. And the governor said the rules were unfair; we disagree with that. We could potentially be victims of impeachment if this was done in a political manner and not a professional manner. The rules could be used against...
...three states where the similar laws are in effect, few cases have gone to trial, suggesting that either the cases are settled or the burden of proof in these other states is just too high. Senator John Cullerton, the Democratic head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is expected to consider the bill later this month, said he is "philosophically in agreement with [it]." He expects that wide, bipartisan support from the House, where it passed last year with just one abstention, will carry over in the Senate. "But I need to, we all need to, look at it closely...
...brought Chicago. The battle is for the remaining souls: the disenchanted middle class and the indignant liberals put off by the investigation. A Chicago Tribune poll taken before Clinton's visit gave Rostenkowski 24%, but 35% were undecided. Nipping at Rostenkowski's heels is state senator John Cullerton...